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    The Art of Digital Storytelling

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    This week I’m reviewing a conversation between Hall Davidson, Director of the Discovery Educator Network, and Bernajean Porter, author of Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories.  Their conversation can be found in the article The Art of Digital Storytelling.  Davidson and Porter discuss a number of ideas about digital storytelling that resonated with me … Continue reading The Art of Digital Storytelling
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    Grassroot Soccer – The beautiful game changing lives through healthy living

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    This week I’m actually showcasing two digital stories, both part of Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization in Africa.  The first story is David’s Story – about a young man in Zambia who uses soccer as a way to share his story of AIDS and the hardships it brought to his family.   The other … Continue reading Grassroot Soccer – The beautiful game changing lives through healthy living
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    Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling – my perspective

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    This week I’m reviewing another chapter by Joe Lambert in his book Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.  In this chapter, titled Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, he gives us an in-depth look at how to actually create a digital story, and the components that we need to consider as we put together our own … Continue reading Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling – my perspective
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    Emotions and Interactive Digital Storytelling

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    Doing a deep-dive today into digital storytelling research with a look at research from Zhao, Zhang, and McDougall (2011) titled Emotion Driven Interactive Digital Storytelling. The premise of their research is that most interactive digital storytelling is based on participants achieving specific goals, whereas their research indicates that emotion can be the driving force to … Continue reading Emotions and Interactive Digital Storytelling
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    Radika’s Dream

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    Another story about how soccer (the beautiful game) empowered someone to strive for their dreams.  This time it’s a story from Nepal.  Radika’s Dream is a moving story about a girl in Nepal who wouldn’t let her dream of playing soccer be squashed, even when she was scolded and beaten by her mother for playing … Continue reading Radika’s Dream
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    A Road Traveled – a look at the roots of digital storytelling

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    This week we got to explore the roots of digital storytelling with Joe Lambert in his book Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.  Chapter 3 of the book is titled A Road Traveled – The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice.  It is a fascinating look at how Lambart evolved from an early participant in … Continue reading A Road Traveled – a look at the roots of digital storytelling
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    And now for something completely different – Traffic Patterns

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    I’m once again looking for an unusual digital story that differs significantly  from the others that I’ve looked at in this blog.  Expanding my concept of digital storytelling, I found a digital story called Traffic Patterns about how humans make a very special type of wave pattern in traffic.  It’s part of the Engines of … Continue reading And now for something completely different – Traffic Patterns
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    Koh Panyee football club – where there’s a will there’s a way

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    Continuing on with my topic of “The beautiful game”, today I’m sharing the story of a group of boys in the village of Koh Panyee in Phang Nga Province in Thailand.  The village is notable for being built completely on stilts by Indonesian fishermen. This true story is about a group of boys who lived … Continue reading Koh Panyee football club – where there’s a will there’s a way
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    Response: Social learning, push/pull, and collaborative learning platforms

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    In Chapter 7 of the New Literacies Sampler book Lankshear and Knobel introduce us to the concept of social learning which is a collaborative form of learning.  It also includes a discussion of the “Push” and “Pull” learning environments where the push environment is based on pushing out the learning materials to the students (as … Continue reading Response: Social learning, push/pull, and collaborative learning platforms
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    Beautiful Photos Capture the Unseen Lives of Street Dogs

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    For my digital story critique this week I wanted to try something a little different.  The adage that a single picture can tell a thousand words can be expand to multiple pictures can tell ten thousand words.  And so I selected a digital photo story about dogs living on the streets titled Beautiful Photos Capture … Continue reading Beautiful Photos Capture the Unseen Lives of Street Dogs
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    Response – 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling

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    Samantha Morra shares with us a practical guide on how we can bring digital storytelling into our classrooms in 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling at the EdTechTeacher.org site.  Her article not only provides the step-by-step process for how to have your students create digital stories, but she also provides a number of resources for … Continue reading Response – 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling
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    The beautiful game -The Truth and Myth of the Christmas Truce 1914

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    During the winter of 1914 British and German troops were facing each other for the first time in the trenches of Europe.  Not yet shocked by the horrors of the First World War, the men in the trenches found that they sometimes had more in common than their leaders were willing to admit.  Along stretches … Continue reading The beautiful game -The Truth and Myth of the Christmas Truce 1914
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    Response to Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom

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    Although a bit dated (2004), I found that Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom (Bull and Kadjar) still had a lot of valuable information in regards to the importance of the story in digital storytelling.  As emphasized in the article, “…the story should be in the foreground and the technology in the background. The … Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom
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    Digital Story Critique – Hearing the Beautiful Game: Soccer without sight

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    A story from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about a man named Andre de Souza Carlos who is blind and yet still plays soccer.  The story can be found at TheScene. Andre had impaired vision from birth, but an accident later in life caused him to be completely blind.  He describes how after his blindness, “It … Continue reading Digital Story Critique – Hearing the Beautiful Game: Soccer without sight
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    Daily Create – The ocean at the end of my backyard…

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    Legend had it that “someone” actually challenged the bull and broke his leg in a hole as he ran away.  Surely it must have been the end of that “someone”. But here we were, intrepid adventurers climbing through the fence to the wide open west that was our neighbor’s land.  Cast off were the warnings … Continue reading Daily Create – The ocean at the end of my backyard…
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    Visual Networks – Learning and photosharing

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    Visual Networks – Learning and photosharing by Guy Merchant (DIY Media, Chap. 4, 2009) is a comprehensive  introduction to photosharing as a social network, and in particular, the photosharing service flickr.  Merchant introduces us to the idea of flickr as a “folksonomy…a body of knowledge can be built democratically through participant-users without recourse to the … Continue reading Visual Networks – Learning and photosharing

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